2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting

February 11-16

Dynamic ocean management, defined as management that uses near real-time data to guide the spatial distribution of commercial activities, is a new management approach employed in many countries around the world. Developed to address a fundamental challenge of commercial fisheries – how to balance economically viable fisheries with ecological sustainability –  dynamic ocean management approaches respond to the movement of managed, target species, non-target species, ocean uses and users, and underlying oceanographic features. Fueled by advances in remote sensing, archival tagging, hand-held technology, and species-distribution modelling, dynamic ocean management approaches provide critical information in real time to ocean users on changing ocean and species conditions.

Goals & audience: This town hall will engage the full spectrum of ocean stakeholders, from policy makers, to managers, to scientists, industry and resource users, and the general public. The town hall will support a community-wide discussion of the opportunities, challenges and potential solutions to widespread adoption and implementation of dynamic ocean management. The town hall will created a shared space for stakeholders to explore new ideas,  their expertise and, as a community, generate a common language and ideas on the future of dynamic ocean management in the US.

• B - Biodiversity
• F - Fisheries
• IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
• PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller